Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Felix Miata wrote: Note the M$ Vista monospace font Consolas is smaller than traditional monospace fonts, similar in apparent size to TNR. In fact, all the Vista fonts are closer together in apparent size than the traditional M$ web fonts. Although that's good for word

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Felix Miata wrote: In Konqueror and all versions of IE, monospace (PRE) is the same size as proportional. No, on IE, the default font size of pre elements, as well as tt, code, kbd, and sample elements, is about 90% of the basic font size. Things _look_ different, since

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-25 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/08/25 14:20 (GMT+0300) Jukka K. Korpela apparently typed: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Felix Miata wrote: In Konqueror and all versions of IE, monospace (PRE) is the same size as proportional. No, on IE, the default font size of pre elements, as well as tt, code, kbd, and sample

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-24 Thread Richard Grevers
On 8/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the browsers on different operating systems. So in an example text, hello, i'm example text!, if the text

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/08/25 08:10 (GMT+0800) Richard Grevers apparently typed: Also, pre gets a smaller font size by default in nearly every browser (13pt vs 16pt, IIRC) so you would at least need to allow for that. Safari is 13px vs. 16px, as is Gecko on Mac and windoz. Gecko is 12px vs. 16px on Linux. In

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-23 Thread david
WEZ! wrote: ohh monospace means each character takes up an equal width so the width of the character 'i' will be the same as an 'm' And a boss from a print industry background will immediately consider that unacceptable! -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-23 Thread david
: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems WEZ! wrote: ohh monospace means each character takes up an equal width so the width of the character 'i' will be the same as an 'm' And a boss from a print industry background will immediately consider that unacceptable

[css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread stellaris
Hi, I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the browsers on different operating systems. So in an example text, hello, i'm example text!, if the text is split to the following line at example on Firefox

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the browsers on different operating systems. Sounds rather odd in several accounts, but on this list, we're supposed to

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread Rob Stevenson
On 22 Aug 2007, at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the browsers on different operating systems. So in an example text, hello, i'm example text!, if the text is

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread Thorsten
Rob Stevenson schrieb: On 22 Aug 2007, at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the browsers on different operating systems. So in an example text, hello, i'm example

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread Thorsten
Hi Rob, I had to do something similar for a site owned by a 'print person' who insisted that lines be the recommended-for-reading-in-books length of somewhere around 7 words per line. It was a simple matter to specify the width of the containing element (the site's old enough that this

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 22/8/07 (17:54) Thorsten said: The containing element's width is fixed, that didn't help any, alas. I checked on Firefox/Win and Safari/Win and had to add in a few line-breaks for Safari where Firefox's text flow already worked normally. That sucks for longer texts of course and is at best

Re: [css-d] Differing font-sizes between operating systems

2007-08-22 Thread Dennis Bixler
On 22/8/07 (17:54) Thorsten said: The containing element's width is fixed, that didn't help any, alas. I checked on Firefox/Win and Safari/Win and had to add in a few line-breaks for Safari where Firefox's text flow already worked normally. That sucks for longer texts of course and is at best